2014 incumbents venture capital 
Revolution
JUNE 3, 2021
The percentage of early-stage venture capital dollars invested into Bay Area startups dropped 15% over the last 10 years, from 39% to 24%. Venture investors pay close attention to the innovation that emerges when startups unbundle the offerings of industry incumbents. And we have since we started our efforts in 2014.
Haystack
NOVEMBER 25, 2018
As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]
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Tomasz Tunguz
OCTOBER 21, 2017
Venture capitalists have financed many of those businesses. Over that 20 year period, annual SaaS investment has increased 20x, peaking in 2014 at $7B. Those venture dollars have financed a panoply of competition. Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
But China and the United States are far from the only technology markets with developed startup and incumbent cohorts, strong venture capital activity, and capital markets able to translate early-stage ideas into public companies. China issue.
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2021
It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year. When Shamir was building Simple, he could see how challenging it was for incumbents to provide the tools developers need to embed financial services, and this is why we have confidence in his ability to win.”.
TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2022
When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.
Haystack
JUNE 5, 2018
After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. Buying that time and capital paid off, as Microsoft recently announced it would purchase GitHub for $7.5B. Satya strikes again. They’re probably not far off from the truth.
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